Snapshot: Five Fusions

Since the middle of the twentieth century, the human community has become, as Marshall McLuhan phrased, a global village. Cartographers have mapped every corner of the earth; technology—expanding at a phenomenal rate, through mass communication and mass transportation—has shortened distances to literally the push of a button, making physical travel possible within hours; achievements in the field of aerospace have made it possible to photograph the planet from space; international political,...